Pie-plate holder for baking ovens



E. B. CRAWFORD PIE PLATE HOLDER FOR BAKING OVENS I Filed March 19', 1924Patented Nov. 11,

STATES 125E388 PATENT OFFECE.

EMERICK BREWSTER CRAWFORD, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THEOVEN EQUIPMENT &; MFG. 00., OF NEVI HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

Pin-PLATE HOLDER FOR BAKING ovens.

Application filed March 19, 1924. Serial No. 700,259.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I. EMERICK Bnnwsrnn CRAWFORD, a citizen oi": the UnitedStates, residing at New Haven, in the county ot New Haven and State ofConnecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pie-PlateHolders for Baking Ovens; and I do hereby declare the following, whentaken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters ofreference marked thereon,,to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application,and represent in Fig. 1 a plan view of a series of pie-plate holdersconstructed in accordance with my invention and assembled to "form ashelfstructure.

Fig. 2 an edge view thereof, with one of the angle-irons partly brokenaway.

Fig. 3 a detached perspective view of one of the holders.

Fig. 41 a view thereof in central transverse section.

Fig. 5 a plan View of one of the modified forms which my improvedpie-plate holder may assume.

Fig. 6 a view thereof on the line 66 of Fig. 5.

My invention relates to an improved pie plate holder applicable for usein any of the types of baking-ovens in which the pies are passeddirectly through, or circulated in, a heated chamber, the object beingto improve the nature of the baking operation and so increase theuniformity and per-- fection of the product andto nullify the effect ofdistorted pie-plates or the careless placement of the same upon theconveyor employed.

With these ends in view, my invention consists in a pie-plate holder forbaking.

ovens, the said holder being characterized by a heat-opening giving freeaccess of heat to the bottom of the plate, and by pie-plate supportslocated adjacent to the said opening for supporting the plate over thesame by their side or rim portions.

My invention further consists in a rectangular pie-plate holder having arela tively large central heat-opening, upstanding plate-supports,positioned to support a pie-plate by its side or rim over the saidopening, and hand-clearance openings located between the said supports.

My invention further consists in a pieplate holder for baking-ovens,having certain details of construction and combinations of parts as willbe hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

' In carrying out my invention, as herein sides and bottom, sets-downbetween them over the heat-opening 11, which admits'heat directly to thefull area of the bottom of f the plate, which is veryadvantageous. forthe speedy and uniform baking of the pie, whatever its character.Clearance-' spaces 13 between. the supports 12 permit the entrance ofthe hand or fingers within the circle of the supports in placing a pieplate thereupon: and in removing it there- These clearance-spaces alsofacilifrom. tate the circulation of the heated air around the sides ofthe plate.

My improved pie-plate holders are arranged, as shown, upon a pair ofparallel angle-irons 14 to which they are secured by bolts 15 orothermeans, whereby a con tinuous shelf of pie-plate holders is formedwith the spaces betweenthe heat-openings of the respective holdersclosed by the abutment of the corners thereof, so that, in case thefilling of any pie boils or slops over, it will be caught and preventedfrom dripping onto the pies on a shelf below. The shelf may be fixed toan endless carrier or swung from an endless carrier, according to thetype of baking-oven used. Between the supports 12, guard-flanges orfenders 16 rises slightly into he hand-clearance spaces 13, so as toprevent the accidental fiowage of any escaped pie material into theheatopenings 11.

In Figs. 5 and 6 of the drawings, I have shown a modified pielate holderembodying my invention but esigned to accommo date a range of pie-platesizes. This modified holder 17 is rectangular in form and has a largecentral heat-opening 18 into which project four equidistant, skeletonsupports, each comprising three upstanding, segmental flanges 19, 20 and21, decreasing in height from the outside of the circle inward, andrespectively curved and spaced so as to support by their edges threestand ard sizes of pie-plates. The triple supports described areseparated from each other by hand clearance-spaces 22, corresponding tothe spaces 13 before described.

Under my invention, the pie-plates are supported entirely by their rimsor on points adjacent thereto, rather than by their hottoms, which isthe common practice, so that all danger of tipping or rocking, due todeformed or uneven bottoms is avoided, as well as the time and laborrequired to properly locate such plates on baking-oven shelves and toshim them thereupon.

My invention also avoids what hitherto has been a source of greattrouble and annoyance, and the production of many disfigured pies, dueto the slopping or boiling over of the pie material, and enables thebaker to use and re-use pie-plates which have had their bottoms bent outof shape and which otherwise would have to be discarded or used withexpense and diiiiculty. Moreover, my invention is attended with greatimprovement in the baking of the pies, since the bottoms of thepie-plates, being entirely exposed, receive the heat direct, whereby thepies are baked more uniformly than when the plates rest upon theirbottoms upon a shelf or grid, Of course, the holders might be made tosupport the plates by their sides, as well as by their rims, but Iprefer to support them by their rims, as shown herein.

I claim:

1. A pie-plate holder for baking-ovens, having a heat-opening andupstanding supports for supporting a pie-plate thereover at points apartfrom its bottom, the said supports being separated by clearance-openingsfor the hand-placement of pie plates upon and removal from the saidsupports.

2. A rectangular pie-plate holder having a centrally-arrangedheat-opening and. upstanding supports rising adjacent thereto forsupporting a pie-plate thereover at points apart from its bottom, thesaid supports being separated by clealance-openings for the entrance ofthe hand in the place ment and removal of the pie-plate.

A pie-plate holder for baking-ovens consisting of a rectangular platehaving a large, centrally-arranged heat-opening, and a plurality ofupstanding, segmental pie plate supports separated by a plurality ofclearance-openings for the access of the hand in the placement upon andremoval of pie plates from the said supports, which sup port itindepedently of its bottom over the said opening.

a. A pie-plate holder for bakingovens, consisting of a rectangular platehaving a centrally-arranged heat-opening, upsta-r ing supports arrangedabout the edge thereof, clearance-openings between the said supports,and fenders located between the said supports in the saidclearauce-openings for preventing access thereinto from the corners ofthe plate.

5. A. shelf-structure for baking-ovens, comprising two; angle ironsarranged parallel with each other, and a series of rectangular pie-plateholders mounted upon the said irons with their adjacent edges abutted soas to form a continuous surface, the individual holders having acentrallyarranged heat-opening and upstanding 131lt7SLlPPOTtS arrangedwith respect thereto to support a pie-plate thereover, and separated byclearance-spaces for the hand placement of the pie-plates upon the saidsupports and their removal therefrom.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscril; ing witnesses.

a; EP/IERHK ERAWFGRE. Witnesses FREDERIO 0. Emma,

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